Abstract: A refrigeration appliance apparatus has an appliance body defining a refrigeration chamber with an inner liner and a water-dispensing unit disposed on a side wall of the inner liner. The water-dispensing unit has a guide for dispensing water, and the water-dispensing unit has at least one actuating unit. The actuating unit has a first operating element and a second operating element for starting the water removal through the guide. The actuating unit has at least one actuating element disposed to connect the first operating element and the second operating element to one another.

Abstract: A refrigerator contains a dispenser for ice and/or liquid. A dispenser housing covers an opening in an outer shell of the refrigerator. The dispenser housing delimits a dispenser recess that extends outward and upward over an upper edge of the opening and is assembled from at least one main part, which extends from a lower edge of the opening over a rear wall to a front edge of a ceiling of the dispenser housing, and a filling part, which extends from the front edge to an upper edge of the opening.

Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes an ice and/or water-dispensing device for non-crushed ice pieces or ice flakes created therefrom by crushing or water created in the appliance, depending on an operational setting of a medium creation facility. The dispensing device has a user-actuatable dispensing lever movable to start dispensing. An adjustment facility adjusts an operational setting of the creation facility. An input facility has user-actuated controls selecting a medium dispensing type before actuating the lever. A control unit adjusts the adjustment facility depending on a signal created by actuation of a control and associated medium dispensing type, before actuating the lever to change the operational setting of the creation facility if the creation facility coupled with the adjustment facility is positioned in an operational setting different from that required for the selected medium dispensing type. A method of operating the appliance is also provided.

Abstract: In order to provide a generic apparatus with improved properties with regard to an operating convenience, a refrigeration appliance apparatus, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance apparatus, is provided. The apparatus has a water-dispensing unit with at least one guiding unit for a guidance of water arranged, in an installed position, in a cover region of a dispensing region of the water-dispensing unit. An inner liner has at least one side wall on which the water-dispensing unit is arranged. An actuating unit has at least one actuating element for starting a water removal. The actuating element has an actuating portion which protrudes into the dispensing region and projects behind the guiding unit.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance apparatus, in particular for a domestic refrigeration appliance, has at least one water-dispensing unit. The water-dispensing unit has at least one actuating unit being a first operating element for starting a water removal. The apparatus is improved, in terms of operating convenience, by providing the actuating unit with at least one additional second operating element for starting the water removal.

Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus (1) has a housing (2) with a receiving space (7) for food and a water line system (18). The water line system includes a line device (19) and at least one water filter (21). The water filter (21) has a filter head (22), and the water line system (18) includes at least one electrically switched water valve (25). The electrically switched water valve (25) is directly arranged at the filter head (22). At least one water consumer (17) is connected to the water line system (18).

Abstract: A system includes a non-programmable bus master. The non-programmable bus master includes a memory protection unit (MPU) to operate in a first configuration with a first set of access permissions and a second configuration with a second set of access permissions, and hardware logic. The hardware logic executes a first task and a second task. The tasks generate transactions and the hardware logic switches between executing the first and second tasks. The hardware logic also causes the MPU to operate in the first configuration when the hardware logic executes the first task and causes the MPU to operate in the second configuration when the hardware logic executes the second task.

Abstract: In order to provide a generic apparatus with improved properties with regard to an advantageous design, a refrigeration appliance apparatus, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance apparatus has at least one water-dispensing unit with at least one guiding unit for guiding water and with at least one actuating unit having at least one switch element for starting a water removal. At least one actuating element is provided for actuating the switch element. An inner liner has a side wall, on which the water-dispensing unit is arranged. The actuating unit and the guiding unit are part of a mounting assembly.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for determining a height of a fluid surface in a fluid container. In some embodiments, the device comprises: a first sound transducer and a second sound transducer for transmitting and receiving sound signals; a reference element disposed at a predetermined distance from the second sound transducer in a fluid space of the fluid container; a deflection element in the fluid space to deflect sound signals by a predetermined angle in the direction of the reference element; and a control unit. The two sound transducers are adjacent a base portion of the fluid container and aligned similarly. The control unit is configured to establish a speed of sound within a fluid in the fluid space based at least in part on travel of the second sound signals and thereby to establish the height of the fluid surface over the base portion of the fluid container dependent on the first sound signals and the speed of sound within the fluid.

Abstract: A domestic appliance includes at least one PEF unit having at least one pair of electrodes and a network part for supplying the electrodes with an operating voltage. The operating voltage is of a suitable magnitude to expose material in a space between the electrodes to an electrical field having a field strength of at least 500 V/mm, and the duration of the exposure is short enough to avoid a breakdown. A water pipe extends through the space. A spacing between the electrodes is a maximum of 3 mm.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance, includes a storage chamber which can be cooled to below 0° C. A water supply feeding into the storage chamber is formed by a resiliently expandable pipeline, at least inside the storage chamber.

Abstract: In an ice maker with a tray having at least one water-receiving cavity, a wall of the cavity contains a phase change material. If an ice maker of this kind is pre-cooled, so that the phase change material is solid, a great deal of heat can be removed from water poured into the cavities in a short time by the heat causing the phase change material to melt.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic component can include the following steps: providing a semiconductor arrangement comprising a carrier structure which has at least one semiconductor chip incorporated into a potting compound, and a redistribution layer which comprises a flexible material and at least one strip conductor, wherein the carrier structure at least in regions is connected to the redistribution layer, and the at least one semiconductor chip is electrically conductively connected to the redistribution layer, and separating the carrier structure along at least one trench in a manner such that the carrier structure is divided into at least two singularized carrier elements, wherein two adjacent ones of the singularized carrier elements are connected to one another over the respective trench by way of the redistribution layer.

Abstract: A container system, having a container with an outer wall and a cavity which has either a slotted-guide element or a sliding block, a sound transducer unit with a longitudinal axis, which includes the other of the sliding block or the slotted-guide element, and a coupling element for acoustically coupling the sound transducer unit with the container. A contour of the slotted-guide element is formed such that, when introducing the sound transducer unit into the cavity, a first path of movement of the sound transducer unit relative to the container occurs, without mechanical contact of the coupling element with either the sound transducer unit or the outer wall. A second path of movement occurs, where the sound transducer unit pivots relative to the container until the sound transducer unit reaches an end position, where the coupling element is pressed in between the outer wall and the sound transducer unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically conductive contact element (2) for an electric plug connector. The electrically conductive contact element (2) comprises a contact region (4) for making detachable electric contact with a mating contact element of a mating plug connector, and comprises a cable connecting region (6) for the connection of a cable. The contact element (2) comprises a cooling cavity (24), which opens into a distal opening (22) of the cable connecting region (6) which is arranged opposite the contact region (4).

Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance having a housing in which a cooling compartment is provided, and is closable by a first door which is movably arranged on the housing. The appliance further having a dispensing unit having an output unit and an ice maker. The dispensing unit is configured for the output of liquid and/or molded ice elements and is arranged on the first door. A rear side of the first door facing toward the cooling compartment has a receptacle protruding toward the cooling compartment, in which receptacle the dispensing unit is arranged. The first door is pivotably arranged with at least one multiple-joint hinge on the housing. The multiple-joint hinge has a mechanism with which, during the pivoting movement of the first door, the first door is also displaced in the width direction.

Abstract: A manual control device for a control and operating unit of a lifting work platform, work machine or construction machine has at least one actuating unit which has an actuation element having at least one magnetic position element, and an evaluating unit having at least one magnetic field sensor unit. The evaluating unit is configured to detect a position and/or movement of the actuation element in a plane of movement based on a sensor signal from the magnetic field sensor unit. The actuation element is movable relative to the sensor unit along a further direction of movement perpendicularly to the plane of movement, wherein the evaluating unit is configured to detect a movement of the actuation element along the further direction of movement based on a sensor signal from the magnetic field sensor unit.

Abstract: Various embodiments may include a method for producing an ultrasound sensor to detect the filling level and/or the temperature of a fluid in an internal combustion engine comprising: arranging an electronics system of the ultrasound sensor in an injection molding die; and encapsulating the electronics system by injection molding with plastic and thereby forming a housing for the electronics system. The housing includes a functional section to fulfill a predetermined function.

Abstract: A filter device for a beverage and/or ice dispenser unit of a household cooling appliance includes a cartridge head which is specifically pivotable. A household cooling appliance with a filter device is also provided.